Why are the tooling costs too high in my analysis?

Tooling costs for molded and cast parts are significantly affected by part complexity, specifically the number of different surfaces to be machined. If you have imported CAD data to your DFM Concurrent Costing analysis, check the input field Surface patches. The number of patches estimated by SolidView can differ depending on the CAD program in which the original model was generated and the file type being imported.